, 1887-01-05
EQUAL AND EXACT JUSTICE.
Warning Hotel and Restaurant Custom
ers In Itegarh to Food AhnlterntIpm.

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Warning Hotel and Restaurant Custom
ers In Regard to Food Adulteration.
The legislatures Of several eastern
stat'.-, where not enough genuine COW
butter is made to supply the people on
Thanksgiving and Christmas, have pissed
laws requiring hotel and restaurant pro-
prie;ors to conspicuously PCS. il their
dining rooms notices setting forth that
oleomargarine Is served on the table in
the place of butter, whenever any substi-
tute for it is used. There seems TO b, No
good reason for Withholding from the
patrons of these hotels and %cstauran
Information about the frauds that are
practiced in other kinds of foods. as well
Us in drinks and condiments that are
placed o the same table with substitutes
for butter. Equal and exact justice
would seem to demand that customers he
appri-ed Of the fact hat the cheese served
l. composed Of the curd Of SKINNED or
separated milk aud cotton seed oil. lard or
neutral fat, and it is colored with annotto,
They should also he made aware of tine
fact hat the pure Vermont maple
sugar is made from West India sugar
canc on the ''tailings' of New Or
leans mola.ses that the strained
honey IS compounded Of fluid
glucose glycerinc and flavoring ex-
tract. that the b%uckwbeat cakes are
made OF wheat middlings and corn meal;
that the genuine white vinegar is
manufactured from corn sugar, malt eX-
tract, or high wines; that the pickles are
''greened' with verdigris; that the ice
cream is compounded of SKINNED milk
and corn starch and Favored with fruit
extracts obtained by skillfully com
bining various oils and ethers; that the
'French sardines' are baby herrings,
caught ON the coast of AIaine and pre-
served in cotton seed oil; that the mus
tard is adulterated with corn meal. and
the spices with finely ground spent tan
bark.
Each coffee cup should contain Il
legend which informs the person who
takes it to his lips that the beverage it
contains is an infusion OF chicory, parched
barley or Canadian peas, which passed
the custom house free Of duty on the
representation that they were to be used
for seed. Each bill of fare should set
forth in years and decades the ages of
the ''spring chickens that are served. or
give the number Of Settings" of eggs
that they Matched before they became too
old to be serviceable in multiplying their
species. All the Jelly dishes should have
a card attached to them setting forth the
fact that their contents are mainly com
posed of fish glue, colored with dye stutfs
and favored with various drug store
preparations.
If the practice of adjoining the walls
and tables of hotels. restaurants and
boarding houses i'll the way suggested
should become general, OF be required Ly
law. the proprietors would find their
business much more profitable than it IT,
at present. Their patrons would eat but
little. and hat little would Ike of the
plainest sorts of food. Few would call
for chicken pie. ask for the second cup of
coffee, or desire to have their ice cream
dish replenished. Salt, which is very
cheap. would be almost the only condi-
ment used with food. The caster and
jelly glasses could still be used for orna-
menting the table, but they would never
require To be refilled. They would serve
thu same purpose that the vessels of col
ored liquids do that are displayed in the
windows of drug stores. 1t is likely that
the health of people who eat at public
tables would be greatly improved by car
rying out the plan proposed. They would
eat corned beef and cabbage, plain roast
beef and boiled potatoes, and decline all
drinks but cold water. Living on this
simple diet they would be well and
happy. Chicago Times.